Astrophysicist
Publications
For the complete list of all my publications follow this link to ADS. I have been author/co-author of more than 182 peer-reviewed articles, including two invited reviews. I am the first author of 22 and co-author of more than 160 of these papers (accepted or published – 31 as second or third author).
Here is the list of my first author publications on major international astronomical journals.
Invited reviews
Ricci, C. & Trakhtenbrot, B.,
Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei
2022 Nature Astronomy
*Ramos Almeida, C. & Ricci, C.,
Nuclear obscuration in Active Galactic Nuclei,
2017 Nature Astronomy 1, 679
*authors listed in alphabetical order.
Peer-reviewed articles
Ricci, C. & Paltani, S.
Ray-tracing simulations and spectral models of X-ray radiation in dusty media
Submitted to ApJ
Ricci, C., Ananna, T. T., Temple, M. J., Urry, C. M., Koss, M. J., Trakhtenbrot, B., Ueda, Y., Stern, D., Bauer, F. E., Treister, E., Privon, G. C., Oh, K., Paltani, S. ; Stalevski, M., Ho, L. C., Fabian, A. C., Mushotzky, R., Chang, C. S., Ricci, F., Kakkad, D. ; Sartori, L., Baer, R., Caglar, T., Powell, M., Harrison, F.
BASS XXXVII: The Role of Radiative Feedback in the Growth and Obscuration Properties of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes
2022 ApJ 938, 67
Ricci, C., Privon, G. C., Pfeifle, R. W. , Armus, L., Iwasawa, K., Torres-Alba, N., Satyapal, S., Bauer, F. E., Treister, E., Ho, L. C., Aalto, S. , Arevalo, P., Barcos-Munoz, L., Charmandaris, V., Diaz-Santos, T., Evans, A. S., Gao, T., Inami, H., Koss, M. J., Lansbury, G., Linden, S. T., Medling, A., Sanders, D. B., Song, Y., Stern, D., U, V., Ueda, Y., Yamada, S.
A hard X-ray view of Luminous and Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies in GOALS: I – AGN obscuration along the merger sequence
2021 MNRAS 1829, 1
Ricci, C., Loewenstein, M, Kara, E., Remillard, R., Fabian, A. C., Gendreau, K. C., Arzoumanian, Z., Ho, L. C., Steiner, J., Wood, K., Trakhtenbrot, B., Arcavi, I., MacLeod, C. L., Hiramatsu, D., Altamirano, D., Cackett, E., Chan, E.
The 450 days X-ray monitoring of the changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654
2021 ApJS 55, 7
Ricci, C., Kara, E., Loewenstein, M, Remillard, R., Fabian, A. C., Gendreau, K. C., Arzoumanian, Z., Ho, L. C., Steiner, J., Wood, K., Trakhtenbrot, B., Arcavi, I., MacLeod, C. L., Hiramatsu, D., Altamirano, D., Cackett, E., Chan, E.,
The destruction and recreation of the X-ray corona in an accreting massive black hole
2020 ApJL 898, 1
NASA press release
Ricci, C., Ho, L. C., Fabian, A. C., Trakhtenbrot, B., Koss, M. J., Ueda, Y., Lohfink, A., Shimizu, T., Bauer, F. E., Mushotzky, R., Schawinski, K., Paltani, S., Lamperti, I., Treister, E., Oh, K.,
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey - XII. The relation between coronal properties of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Eddington ratio,
2018 MNRAS 480, 1819.
Ricci, C., Trakhtenbrot, B., Koss, M. J., Ueda, Y., Schawinski, K., Oh, K., Lamperti, I., Mushotzky, R., Treister, E., Ho, L. C., Weigel, A., Bauer F. E., Paltani, S., Fabian, A. C., Xie, Y., Gehrels, N.,
The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback,
2017d Nature. 549, 488
Ricci, C., Trakhtenbrot, B., Koss, M. J., Ueda, Y., Del Vecchio, I., Treister, E., Schawinski, K., Paltani, S., Oh, K., Lamperti, I., Berney, S., Gandhi, P., Ichikawa, K., Bauer, F. E., Ho, L. C., Asmus, D., Beckmann, V., Soldi, S., Balokovic, M., Gehrels, N., Markwardt, C. B.,
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey – V. The 70-months X-ray catalogue,
2017c ApJS 233, 17.
Ricci, C., Bauer, F. E., Treister, E., Schawinski, K., Privon, G. C., Blecha, L., Arevalo, P., Armus, L., Harrison, F., Ho, L. C., Iwasawa, K., Sanders, D. B., Stern, D.,
Growing supermassive black holes in the late stages of galaxy mergers are heavily obscured,
2017b MNRAS 468, 1273.
NASA press release
Ricci, C., Assef, R. J., Stern, D., Nikutta, R., Alexander, D. M., Asmus, D., Ballantyne, D. R., Bauer, F. E., Blain, A. W., Boggs, S., Boorman, P. G., Brandt, W. N., Brightman, M., Chen, C.-T. J., Christensen, F. E., Comastri, A., Craig, W. W., Daz-Santos, T., Eisenhardt, P. R., Farrah, D., Gandhi, P., Hailey, C. J., Harrison, F. A., Jun, H. D., Koss, M. J., LaMassa, S., Lansbury, G. B., Markwardt, C. B., Stalevski, M., Stanley, F., Treister, E., Tsai, C.-W., Walton, D. J., Wu, J. W., Zappacosta, L., Zhang, W. W.,
NuSTAR observations of WISE J1036+0449, a Galaxy at z∼ 1 obscured by hot dust,
2017a ApJ 835, 105.
Ricci, C., Bauer, F. E., Arevalo, P., Boggs, S., Brandt, W. N., Christensen, F. E., Craig, W. W., Gandhi,
P., Hailey, C. J., Harrison, F. A., Koss, M., Markwardt, C. B., Stern, D., Treister, E., Zhang, W. W.,
IC 751: a new changing-look AGN discovered by NuSTAR,
2016b ApJ 819, 4.
Ricci, C., Bauer, F. E., Treister, E., Romero-Canizales, C., Arevalo, P., Iwasawa, K., Privon, G. C.,
Sanders, D. B., Schawinski, K., Stern, D., Imanishi, M.,
NuSTAR unveils a low-luminosity heavily obscured AGN in the LIRG NGC 6286,
2016a ApJ 820, 5
Ricci, C., Ueda, Y., Koss, M., Trakhtenbrot B., Bauer, F. E., Gandhi, P.,
Compton-thick accretion in the local Universe,
2015 ApJ 815L, 13.
Ricci, C., Tazaki, F., Ueda, Y., Paltani, S., Boissay, R., Terashima, Y.,
Suzaku Observation of IRAS 00521-7054, a Peculiar Type-II AGN with a Very Broad Feature at 6 keV
2014c ApJ 795, 147
Ricci, C.; Ueda, Y.; Paltani, S.; Ichikawa, K.; Gandhi, P.; Awaki, H.,
Iron Kα emission in type-I and type-II active galactic nuclei,
2014b MNRAS 441, 3622
Ricci, C., Ueda, Y., Ichikawa, K.; Paltani, S., Boissay, R., Gandhi, P., Stalevski, M., Awaki, H.,
The narrow Fe Kα line and the molecular torus in active galactic nuclei: an IR/X-ray view,
2014a A&A 567, 142
Ricci, C., Paltani, S., Ueda, Y., Awaki, H.,
On the role of the Gamma-Eddington ratio relation on the X-ray Baldwin effect,
2013b MNRAS 435, 1840
Ricci, C., Paltani, S., Awaki, H., Petrucci, P. O., Ueda, Y., Brightman, M.,
Luminosity-dependent unification of Active Galactic Nuclei and the X-ray Baldwin effect,
2013a A&A 553, 29
Ricci C., Walter, R., Courvoisier T. J.-L. & Paltani, S.,
"Reflection in Seyfert Galaxies and the Unified Model of AGN",
2011 A&A 532, 102
ESA Press release
Ricci C., Beckmann, V., Audard, M. & Courvoisier T. J.-L.,
"Multi-zone warm and cold absorbers in 3 Seyfert galaxies",
2010 A&A 518, 47